Author: H. Trusta (pseud. [i.e. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.])Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A peep at "Number five"; or, The life of a city pastor
Author: H. Trusta (pseud. [i.e. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.])Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Displacing the Divine
Author: Douglas Alan WalrathPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231521804
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walrath has tracked changing patterns of belief and church participation in American society, and his research has revealed a particularly fascinating trend: portrayals of ministers in American fiction mirror changing perceptions of the Protestant church and a Protestant God. From the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who portrays ministers as faithful Calvinists, to the works of Herman Melville, who challenges Calvinism to its very core, Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers, including Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon Lutherans and Gail Godwin's women clergy. He identifies a range of types: religious misfits, harsh Puritans, incorrigible scoundrels, secular businessmen, perpetrators of oppression, victims of belief, prudent believers, phony preachers, reactionaries, and social activists. He concludes with the modern legacy of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century images of ministers, which highlights the ongoing challenges that skepticism, secularization, and science have brought to today's religious leaders and fictional counterparts. Displacing the Divine offers a novel encounter with social change, giving the reader access, through the intimacy and humanity of literature, to the evolving character of an American tradition.
Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author: Godey's Lady's Book
Author: Louis Antoine GodeyPublisher:
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Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
Book Description
Includes music.
Writing for Immortality
Author: Anne E. BoydPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401770
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Before the Civil War, American writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe had established authorship as a respectable profession for women. But though they had written some of the most popular and influential novels of the century, they accepted the taboo against female writers, regarding themselves as educators and businesswomen. During and after the Civil War, some women writers began to challenge this view, seeing themselves as artists writing for themselves and for posterity. Writing for Immortality studies the lives and works of four prominent members of the first generation of American women who strived for recognition as serious literary artists: Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Constance Fenimore Woolson. Combining literary criticism and cultural history, Anne E. Boyd examines how these authors negotiated the masculine connotation of "artist," imagining a space for themselves in the literary pantheon. Redrawing the boundaries between male and female literary spheres, and between American and British literary traditions, Boyd shows how these writers rejected the didacticism of the previous generation of women writers and instead drew their inspiration from the most prominent "literary" writers of their day: Emerson, James, Barrett Browning, and Eliot. Placing the works and experiences of Alcott, Phelps, Stoddard, and Woolson within contemporary discussions about "genius" and the "American artist," Boyd reaches a sobering conclusion. Although these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women.
Catalogue of English Prose Fiction and Books for the Young in the Lower Hall of the Boston Public Library
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
To-day, a Boston literary journal, ed. by C. Hale
Author: Charles HaleTo-day
Author: Charles HalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Scribbling Women
Author: Elaine ShowalterPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813523934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
From the Publisher: A new mother longing to write is judged "hysterical" and confined to her bedroom where she slowly loses herself in horrific fantasy. A young girl stirred by two beings--a handsome young man and an ethereal white heron--is forced to make a choice between them. A love affair quashed by convention ignites during a sudden storm. These tales of remarkable and ordinary lives in nineteenth-century America are told throughout women's voices that call out from the kitchen hearth, the solitary room, the prison cell. Stories by Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton, as well as by others less familiar, reveal a universe of emotions hidden beneath parochial scenes. American writers claimed the short story as their national genre in the nineteenth century, and women writers made it the most important outlet for their particular experiences. A unique selection, with an introduction, notes, selected criticism, and a chronology of the authors' lives and times.
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